BRAIN


Meaning of BRAIN in English

■ noun

1》 an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.

↘( ~s ) the substance of an animal's ~ used as food.

2》 intellectual capacity.

3》 ( the ~s ) informal a clever person who is the main organizer within a group.

■ verb informal hit hard on the head with an object.

Phrases

have something on the ~ informal be obsessed with something.

Derivatives

-~ed adjective

Origin

OE brægen , of W. Gmc origin.

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